How to Use engineering in a Sentence

engineering

noun
  • This control panel is a good example of smart engineering.
  • And there were a lot of rules out there that didn't make engineering sense to me.
    — David Pogue, CBS News, 25 June 2023
  • And the right platform engineering can bring it to the fore.
    — Carl Miller, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2022
  • The Charger and 300 are large sedans that share most of their engineering.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The key is to use them for all roles, not just engineering openings.
    — Anna Oakes, Quartz, 16 May 2023
  • To say the least, this would be an advanced feat of engineering.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Lovers of German and Swiss engineering now have a watch of their very own.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 12 June 2022
  • The idea of planet-scale engineering didn't gain much traction over the next two decades.
    — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Still, the Bolt is based on older engineering, which has helped keep its price down.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The college of engineering is the largest school at Oregon State.
    — oregonlive, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The Mercedes weighs in at a chart-topping 3954 pounds, a fact that even the most astute engineering can't hide.
    — Don Schroeder, Car and Driver, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The current planning and engineering phase of the project is backed by $8.4 million of state funding.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The engineering team takes the data and hands it off to the cartographers.
    — Kristin Shaw, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Modern plumbing joined to good civic engineering still ranks right at the top.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Hyundai and Kia models share much of their engineering, CNN said.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The design and engineering work sets the stage for construction, though the timetable and funding for that have not yet been announced.
    — Lawrence Specker | , al, 13 Mar. 2023
  • And yet all too often people in the U.K. overlook the power of engineering.
    — John Browne, Fortune, 21 July 2023
  • The engineering ideas were sound – the metallurgy wasn't there to support it at that time.
    — Mike Hanlon, New Atlas, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The engineering of this immense beast is cutting edge as well.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Our plan is to build these spaces, pay for maintenance and engineering, and let the centers give out the time slots for people to use them.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2024
  • On took the standard raglan sleeve hoodie template and added in their crafty Swiss engineering.
    — Ebenezer Samuel, Men's Health, 16 Jan. 2023
  • That's a tougher call, but this platform is still the Subaru engineering team's baby.
    — Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 5 Dec. 2022
  • With just a 15-minute construction time, the mBot doesn’t require hours of engineering.
    — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The 17-minute video gives us an idea of how complicated the engineering of a foldable device is.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The trial centered on the engineering firms and the effects of lead on four children, not all Flint residents.
    — CBS News, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Moyer took the day shift, and Jack, who kept his engineering job in Fullerton, came in at night, sleeping on his workbench, a box for a pillow.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
  • Behind the highest dam lies a huge pond, a reservoir kept in place by this feat of natural engineering.
    — Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The prizes on the night showcased British luxury across fashion, art and engineering.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 19 Nov. 2024
  • The Overseas Highway, which literally stretches out and over the open ocean, is considered to be an engineering marvel of concrete and steel.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Frank's chief of engineering, Patrick Vovor, testified at the trial that Javice had asked him to generate synthetic data to support her claim that the company had over 4 million users.
    — CBS News, 28 Mar. 2025

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